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- Top IT news for May 2: Microsoft leaning toward hostile bid, Yahoo close to Google search deal, Sun Layoffs
- Top five headlines Report: Microsoft latest leaning is to go hostile Yahoo reportedly closer to Google search deal Sun plans layoffs following weak quarter; Blames U.S. economy Interop: Motorola predicts end of wired enterprise networks Intel's 10Gb NIC to ship in May ...
- Tags: Google Inc., TechRepublic Inc., Layoff, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Search, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Decreasing the Impact of Brain Drain
- Inevitably, all organizations lose good people. Whether through layoffs, attrition, or retirement, they all must deal with the fact that even their most knowledgeable employees will someday leave. Staffing and human resources issues aside, one of the greatest challenges for companies facing possible layoffs, high rates of...
- Tags: Attrition, Layoff, Knowledge, APQC, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
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- 4 Questions That Will Help Decrease the Impact of Brain Drain
- Inevitably, all organizations lose good people. Whether through layoffs, attrition, or retirement, they all must deal with the fact that even their most knowledgeable employees will someday leave. Staffing and human resources issues aside, one of the greatest challenges for companies facing possible layoffs, high rates of...
- Tags: Attrition, Layoff, Knowledge, APQC, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
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- What to do when you have to lay off staff
- I have been seeing that word quite a bit in the papers these days and frankly it bothers me. Having been the victim of a reduction in force, I know all too well the pain of sudden unemployment and all that can go with it. However this column...
- Tags: Job, Layoff, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Ramon Padilla
- Blog posts 2008-02-02
- Why is a visit from the big bosses so scary?
- A friend of mine just went through a few days of unnecessary terror. The company she works for has several divisions, located in different cities. A couple of weeks ago, the staff in her office received an e-mail stating that one of the company's honchos was going to be in...
- Tags: Layoff, Friend, Workforce Management, E-mail, Human Resources, Online Communications, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Layoffs coming to Palm
- Palm confirms earlier reports that the company has begun informing employees of impending job cuts. Palm is not disclosing how many employees will be affected, though rumors peg it in the hundreds. Palm also announced earlier this month that quarterly revenue and gross margin would be...
- Tags: Layoff, Palm Inc., Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Is there a right way to downsize?
- Here are some stories of staff layoffs due to downsizing that ended badly: 1. One company I know of, thinking that rumors would leak out anyway, decided to be honest and forthcoming and announce to the staff that in several days, there would be some layoffs. Of...
- Tags: Layoff, Employee, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- 5 stages of the Layoff experience
- It's happened to me twice: laid off when the company I worked for was sold. In one of those cases, it was a voluntary layoff because I didn't want to relocate. For a career-minded person like me, who is prone to place a great psychological significance...
- Tags: Job, Layoff, Luban, Professional Development, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- 5 stages of the Layoff experience
- Great, but #5 needs moreBeen there, done that, got the T-shirt, so I can say you summarized it very well. My only comment, and it's a big one, is that you missed something in #4, and into #5. Depending on your experience level the person should seriously consider...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Workforce management, jt1@..., layoff
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- 20 things managers can do to prevent Layoffs
- According to cost reduction expert Steven Martin, "Mass layoffs are management's way of telling you they were asleep." In this excerpt from his article "Layoff: A Four-Letter Word in Any Economy," he pinpoints preventive business strategies that allow management to steer the organization away from the need to undergo mass...
- Tags: Layoff, Cost Reduction, Workforce Management, Human Resources
- Download resources 2006-08-09
- Everyone's a Layoff candidate
- The real impact of outsourcing ...not be felt ..?Really? My employer went from over 1800 employees to 86 since they decided to send the work to their plants in China in 2005. The money spend building new plants in China could have been better spent in the USA...
- Tags: 50kilroy, feedback, layoff, outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
- Everyone's a Layoff candidate
- When its all said and done, the US auto industry will have reduced their employment ranks by about 80,000 people in 2006. Almost entirely, most of these jobs will not be replaced. Although much is said about the impact of outsourcing, in raw numbers, fewer...
- Tags: Career, Career Development, job, layoff, Management, outsourcing, Personal Development, Success, Workplace Strategy
- Blog posts 2006-12-24
- Who's the most Layoff IT employee?
- Who was the most layoff IT employee in the IT world? I have three good IT Manager friends were layoff thrice in their respective IT careers....Can someone beat Threepeat career layoff?From a slightly different angle I'm 7 for 71st job - Large company -laid off, but rehired and transfered....
- Tags: job, career, agaetos@..., information technology, layoff
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- Top 10 ways IT managers can support knowledge transfer
- Have you played a role in facilitating peer mentoring on your team? What other advice would you offer IT managers who are looking for the best ways to effect knowledge transfer?[b]The author left out some of the most important ways[/b]The author of this article has left out some of the...
- Tags: 10 things, it management, JodyGilbert, knowledge, knowledge transfer, layoff, mentoring, steve trautman
- Discussion threads 2006-10-17
- Top ten methods of Layoff notification that Radio Shack rejected
- On Tuesday, Radio Shack notified 400-450 employees BY E-MAIL that they were losing their jobs. This has, understandably, drawn a lot of criticism in the media. One blogger I think nailed it when she described the action thusly: "Disgraceful."I thought Radio Shack was skirting the bottom of the ethics barrel...
- Tags: layoff, Radio Shack
- Blog posts 2006-09-01
- 20 things managers can do to prevent Layoffs
- This list is excerpted with permission fromthe article "Layoff:A Four-Letter Word in Any Economy," bySteven Martin, president of Profit Professionals of Business Solutions -The Positive Way. The organization's primarybusiness focus is helping companies achieve cost reduction and profitimprovement, eliminating the need for layoffs.Here are 20 thoughts on how to prevent...
- Tags: layoff, Use
- Technical articles 2006-08-09
- 20 things managers can do to prevent Layoffs
- Do you think the strategies on this list provide effective ways to circumvent the need for layoffs? Have you seen firsthand how the failure to make these kinds of careful business decisions has led to downsizing?Business shoud begat businessI know of many cases where an employee left a company to...
- Tags: downsizing, good talent, it management, JodyGilbert, layoff, layoffs, staff, talent, things manager
- Discussion threads 2006-08-09
- Tis the season for Layoffs because of execs mismanagement....
- I was crusing the web and of course, many companies are going to whack people because of mismanagement from their Veeps & other executives and found this fantastic article. It is was posted March 7, Buffalo, NY by Steven C. Martinere. It is definately an eye opener FOR...
- Tags: layoff, Use, wacka... wacka... wacka..., your fired!, layoffs, The Admiral, it management
- Discussion threads 2006-08-07
- The 5 most dangerous IT management trends in 2006
- By Joey SmithIT managers who lose their jobs usually do so not because of a lack oftechnical skills, but because of deficits in management, leadership, andstrategy skills. In this article, I will talk about some trends that couldspell the end for an IT manager's career unless he or she is...
- Tags: audit, fighter, information technology, IT administration, layoff, strategy
- Technical articles 2006-08-03
- Oracle Announces Layoffs
- News from CNET: Oracle outlined its integration plans for Siebel Systems on Thursday, with 2,000 job cuts among the most notable tasks at hand. It goes on to say that most of the layoffs will be Oracle people, not Siebel:...This post originally appeared on an external website
- Tags: layoff, Oracle Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-02-09
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